Thursday, April 4, 2013

who is the inventor of the internet?

Tim Berners-Lee is called the father (invented) of the INTERNET like we see it now. but the INTERNET in its actual form  comes after a hard work of  many scientists and Institutions in many years so the INTERNET doesn't invented


by the work of only one person.

- in 1962 : Early research by ARPA, an agency of the Department of Defense, where JCR Licklider successfully defends his ideas on a global computer network.

-  1969 First Connection of  between computers of four U.S. universities via the Interface Message Processor of Leonard Kleinrock

- 1971 : 23 computers are connected to ARPANET. Sending the first e-mail by Ray Tomlinson.

-  1972 : Birth of InterNetworking Working Group, an organization responsible for managing the Internet

-  1973 : England and Norway join the Internet each with a computer

- 1979 : Creation of newsgroups (forums) by American students

- 1982 : Definition of TCP / IP and the word "Internet"

- 1989 : 100 000 computers are connected

- 1991 : Public announcement of the World Wide Web (a public hypertext system operating on Internet that allows to view web pages with a browser developed by  Tim Berners-Lee )

- 1992 : 1 000 000 computers connected

- 1993 : Appearance of the Web Browser


Tim Berners-Lee was born in southwest London, England, on 8 June 1955, He studied at The Queen's College, Oxford, from 1973 to 1976, where he received a first-class degree in Physics.

He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989 and on 25 December 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student at CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research), he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet.

He is now the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, the group that sets technical standards for the Web.

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